Texas Plastics, Inc., and Fred J. Meyer v. Roto-Lith, Ltd., and Harry Borak’s Empirical Analysis
250 F.2d 844 · 1958
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1973
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cranfill v. Hayden · Williams v. United States · 57 Tex. Civ. App. 475 - Mayo v. Goldman · Bradley Min. Co. v. Boice · Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Long
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action is sustainable against a corporation for defamation by its agent, if such defamation is referable to the duty-owing by the agent to the corporation, and was made while in the discharge of that duty. Neither express authorization or subsequent ratification is necessary to establish liability. Mo. Pacific Ry. v. Richmond, 73 Tex. 568 , 11 S.W. 555 , 4 L.R.A. 280 , 15 Am.St.Rep. 794 ; Southwestern T. & T. Co. v. Long (Tex.Civ.App.), 183 S.W. 421 ; Producers Refg. Co. v. Frazier (Tex.Civ.App.) 283 S.W. 880 ; Providence-Washington Ins. Co. v. Owens (Tex.Civ.App.) 207 S.W. 666 ; Houston Printing Co. v. Jones (Tex.Civ.App.) 282 S.W. 854 ; Priest v. Central State Fire Ins. Co., 223 Mo.App. 122 , 9 S.W.2d 543 ; Daughtry v. Blanket State Bank (Tex.Civ.App.) 41 S.W.2d 527 ; Magnolia Pet. Co. v. Guffey (Tex.Civ.App.) 59 S.W.2d 174 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.